Darling Girl Watercolor Paint Pots Review & Swatches

Well hello there everyone 

Todays post as promised is a review and swatches on the Darling Girl Watercolor Paint Pots I got from my lovely haul that i showed you all lately if you missed that haul you can view it here. 

Now first of all what i love about the Darling girl website is you get a full description of what you are buying so you have a great idea of what you are getting when you receive them you know exactly what to expect.  

So when i seen these watercolor paint pots i thought instantly i had to try them.  The colours on the site looked fab.  Now before you go wondering are these like the Mac paint pots or the Maybelline colour tattoo eyeshadows i will tell you now no they are not but Darling girl states as follows:

Watercolor Paint Pots are a multi-purpose product.  They are a nice cream-type base that can be used as a cream eye shadow. They also work as a base for other shadows, as well as make a pretty good eye liner.

Watercolor Paint Pots have a soft creamy consistency; they are not water proof, but once set, they are pretty smudge proof.  They have almost a cream-to-powder effect.

For each pot you are getting 3g of product for $5.25 which is pretty cheap for the amount of product you are getting 

These are the shades i finally chose to buy lol it took me a half hour to decide.....as there are 15 to choose from.  I was well impressed with Susan's girlie designs on the pots soooooo cute.  

The Shades 

My first shade is "Peony for your thoughts" which is a lovely light baby pink with gold shimmer to it :) 

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Next is "Starry night" which is a lovely pearl black :) 

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Another is "Copper Canyon" is a sheer but buildable peachy coppery shade with shimmer 

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Next is "Pyramid of Skulls" now this is one of my favourites.....Its a very pigmented Burgundy with shimmer a little of this goes a long way 

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Lastly (for now) is "Wildly Dancing Children" which is an eggplant shade with red flash shimmer beautiful :) 

This is them altogether in natural light dont they look amazing :) 

My overall opinion 

I absolutely love these shade they are amazing.  The consistency is very thick and a little of these goes a long way, 3g might not seem like alot but believe me they will last you a long long time.  Be sure to use a primer with these as stated they are not waterproof and are more for the idea of been a base than worn on their own.  I have put them to the test worn alone and they do last a good 4 to 5 hours on them before starting to smudge.  These are amazing under eyeshadows even for cheap eyeshadows that are not so pigment these paint pots with bring out the intensity of them.  i applied with bother my fingers and brush to see which is better and i have to admit you get alot more out of using a brush to apply.  The best thing about these is that they dont stay creamy they go from cream to powder which is even better as i hate the wet feeling on my lids.  When dried in they wont smudge with a touch but if you did rub your eye they will surely smudge.  

These are fantastic as an eyeliner also and once set with an eyeshadow or translucant powder they stay all day but only on the top lash line for me i have not tried it on the bottom lash line yet

I am 100% going to buy more shades of these paint pots they are fun to play with and for the price they are well worth it 

Oh and i also forgot to mention that postage to Ireland only took an amazing 5 days which is excellent and shipping to Ireland costs $4. even better

So have you tried these yet? 

Well Until next time 

Take Care 

Lots of Love Luck and Laughter 

Nina C

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Garnier intensive 7 days sos repair Hand Cream Review

Hey my beauties how are you all doing today :) :) 

Wow today is the 3rd day of Summer and its finally sunny and at least warm long may it last 

I Have to thank you all for bearing with me waiting on me to get back making videos 

I havent made one in 3 weeks and boy do i miss it.

Alot has been happening lately which has got in the way of making them but i will soon be back until then i really hope that my blog posts are keeping you busy :) 

I have so so so so much videos to make so many hauls and I have my first official Vlog video planned which will be up early next week hehehehe so keep an eye out for that one i cant wait 

So anyway enough with my little update on to my review :) :) 

Well now if you are a follower for a while you will know that i suffer alot with dermatitis on my hands.  I explained alot about this in one of my videos but to make it short i only really suffer with it in the Winter, Summer or if i use cleaning products mainly bleach (i am a clean freak lol). When i suffer with it i SUFFER BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So bad my hands feel like sand paper and drives me crazy with catching on clothing or anything....Its sometimes gets that bad my knuckles and between my fingers split little sores which then bleeds its so painful.  Believe me i have tried alot of creams even E45 and it never works it actually drives my hands even more crazy.....Until i got a fantastic cream in one of my glossyboxes and its cost £16 - £20 to buy it was amazing but there is no way i was going to pay that all the time for a hand cream so i went on the hunt again and found this little beauty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Garnier intensive 7 days sos repair Hand Cream

Now when i seen this i thought hhhhmmmmmm would it work for me not only is this a drugstore brand but it only cost 2.28 euro which is extremely cheap.  Plus i never really tried anything from Garnier before.  So i obviously went ahead a got it mainly for the fact it cost so little plus its for Dry - Extra dry hands.  

So the minute i got home i started using it as my hands was suffering.......

The cream is a pure white cream and quite thick in consistency so be careful not to squirt out too much as a little goes a long way 

While rubbing this into my hand the first thought that came into my head is "oh god this is going to leave an oily residue on my hands" thats how thick and kind of oily it felt and i hate hand creams that leave behind oiliness, but alas it did exactly what it said on the tube Fast absorbing is not the word :) :) my hand felt instantly hydrated and i had a nice dewy look to them rather than a dry sand paper look which i love instantly........not only that my hands did not feel at all oily  :) 

The scent is lovely from this cream not overpowering but smells like a mild moisturiser and i love that too.  Even though my hand looked as rough as a builders hand ( no offence to builders out there) but they certainly didnt feel like it which amazed me after one application.  I took the liberty of taking a picture before i started using this hand cream and here it is .........

This photo doesn't even show the full extent of how bad my hands were but it will give you an idea.  Now i am going to show you a picture of my hands a week and a half later which is today :) 

Isnt that an amazing difference i find my hands more like womens hands now rather than man hands.  Every time i apply this cream it feels like there is a protective coating on them.  Plus even when i wash up after applying there is still a feel of protectiveness.  

I apply this cream on my hand twice to three times a day depending on how much cleaning i do but normally only twice and my hands never felt better :) They are not 100% healed after a week and half but give it another week and my hands will be hands of a model lol :) 

Does it do what it claims ??????? 100% i love this cream and Im quite happy to say its one of my favourite products i have bought in April so far !!!!!  I have even gone as far as buying the body lotion to try it out :) :) There will be a review up soon on that :) ;)

So have you tried this cream 

What do you think of it :) :) 

Until next time my beauties 

Lots of Love Luck and Laughter 

Nina C

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Darling Girl Haul :)

Hey my beautifuls how are you all doing first of all let me tell you this is just a post to tell you about my lovely haul i got from Darling Girl Cosmetics .  

I will be reviewing these items seperately as i feel they deserve that hehehe 

Well since i got these little beauties i have been having so much fun playing with them.  This is not the first time i ordered off this site the first time i ordered a load of samples but never got round to doing a review on them as i hadnt started blogging at that time but now that im am blogging i couldnt or cant wait to share these with you all.  

Let me tell you a little about Darling Girl Cosmetics and then i will go on and show you what i got :) 

Darling Girl Cosmetics is a home based business in Texas USA :) (i love the idea of that all the family getting involved in a family business.  Sorry im just big into family doing things together Big family gal i am)  The owners name is Susan and from what i have heard and what i have experienced she is a lovely lovely lady and very helpful.  My impression of her is she is out to please her costumers no matter what and that is what made me purchase off her again.  Any question i had for her she was very quick to get back to me and very helpful very very impressive.  They sell everything from Eyeshadow pigments, to glitters, to lip products to bath and body products anything :) and They are all animal friendly and full of gentle ingredients :) 

From their site:

Our Mission:

At Darling Girl Cosmetics we believe that everyone at any budget should be able to have quality affordable makeup.  This is why we offer two sizing options as well as samples of many of our products. Petit's (1/4 tsp jars), Full Size (3/4 tsp jar), and sample baggies with 1/8 tsp.  At these prices you could buy several jars of our eye shadow for the price of one high end eye shadow with the same great quality.

So what did i order you order i hear you say well...........................

Look at the packaging on these aint they the cutest and really girlie :) this is how i got my lovely bits :) 

Here is all my lovely goodies hehehehe now you can see why I was so excited :) :) 

So let me begin by telling you what i got now i must remind you this is not a review but the reviews of each are to follow dont worry but if i review all of these together this post would be too long and you will end up googli-eyed reading hahaha 

So heres a sneaky peaky at what i got :) in this picture is:

5 Watercolor Paint pots (in which i was most excited about getting and trying) 

Next I got an eyeshadow pigment in shade "Irish eyes" 

A liquid kiss luxe 

2 Kiss you off: Color Rich Lip Balms 

and a tube of Glitter Glue 

And lastly 

2 Luscious Lip Balms 

Plus i got an bloggers package which only cost me $0.75 and that included 3 eyeshadow samples, 1 blush sample and a lip product sample.  

I want to keep posting up pictures but that will spoil my reviews lol 

I have been working on my review posts all week so you wont have to wait long to see them and lots more pictures swatches and lip swatches and of course my utmost honest opinion and experiences of these :) :) 

Also Darling girl has a little promotion code for first time buyers in which i didnt even notice until after i purchased these (you can just imagine my jaw dropping when i seen this and then me kicking myself hahaha)  so if you cant wait for my reviews and wanna buy i will post up this code now for you 

For first time customers enter code NEWCUSTOMER for 10% off your order of $15.00 or more. 

:) Anyway back to working on these reviews for you all 

until then i hope this little teaser post gives you something to look forward to 

:) :) 

Chat soon my lovelies 

Lots of Love Luck and Laughter 

Nina C

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Strawberry Roulade/Swiss Roll Recipe

Hey my beautifuls how are you all doing?

Now i know this is a long over due recipe i promised to post for you all 

But i didnt have my detailed photos until just the other day my little boy turned 5 and i 

asked him what type cake he wanted me to bake for him and he wanted this one but with icing on top :) Bless his little cotton socks and puppy dog eyes i just couldnt refuse :) 

The thought of Strawberry swissroll with icing all over didnt seem too attractive in my eyes but my baby boy got what my baby boy wanted and to be honest it actually worked out to be a hit !!! I will post pictures of his Iced covered Strawberry Roulade/Swiss roll at the end :) 

Anyways here i will give you the recipe of this lovely cake in the picture above.  Its actually quite easy and once you bake it the 1st time you will surely know how to without instructions.  

Starting off with Ingredients :) 

6 eggs seperated 

115g Icing Sugar

65g Cake/Self Raising Flour 

300g Strawberry Jam

250mls Heavy cream

30g Icing Sugar (for cream & Dusting) 

Vegetable Oil 

Flour for Dusting 

12x15 inch baking tray

(you can go for low fat options of the cream and jam if you wish) 

So now for the baking part :) :) :) 

• Ok start off by  preheat the oven to 356 F (180 C)
• Then seperate your 6 eggs 
• Starting with the egg yolks whisk them a little and then slowly add the 115g Icing Sugar while whisking :) dont over whisk as they will get too thick :)

•  Add in the flour and mix again (dont forget not to thick)

• In a separate bowl whisk you egg whites until you get firm soft peaks

• Now all you gotta do is add them to the egg yolk mixture but be careful dont mix them in.  Use a Spatula to fold them in and the mixture should look something like below 

• The lighter and fluffier the mix is the better sponge you will get 

• Line your baking pan with parchment paper, and (to stay on the safe side) spray it with some vegetable oil and flour it lightly

• Pour the mix onto the tray and spread it out evenly :) Then place into your heated oven and bake until golden brown 


• While your lovely sponge is baking prepare the work surface to place your sponge. Get a clean towel and place it on your work surface 

•  Place a sheet of parchment paper on top of the towel 

•  Then sprinkle the parchment paper with a little Icing sugar to prevent the sponge from sticking to it. 

• Ding Ding Ding your sponge is ready!!!!!!!!! 

• Immediately upon removing the cake from the oven, invert it onto the towel and the paper you have prepared.  So now you have the dish towel and the paper underneath the cake and there’s also a piece of paper on top of the cake the one it was on first.
• My Sponge came out alot thicker than a normal Swiss roll but if you want it thinner simply use a bigger baking tray 

• While the cake is still hot remove the parchment paper on top and roll the rest together towel included if you try to roll it when its cool down it will break
• Leave it to cool completely which will take less than 2 hours not even 
• Then when cool roll it out and spread your favourite strawberry jam (you dont have to use strawberry BTW you can use any of your favourite jams if you want) 

• Then whip up that lovely cream in which you can sweeten with the 35g Icing sugar as listed in the ingredients or you can leave that out and have plan cream i have a seet tooth so i like the icing sugar in it 
• Then spread the cream over the jam 

• Then roll you swiss roll up again

• Now as i stated above this is a much thicker swiss roll than normal but if you wanted a skinnier one simple use a bigger baking tray my kiddies love it this way in fact so do i :)  :) 
• You will notice you will have cream left over and i will post a picture on what i done with my left overs below 
• After rolling up your cake simply dust it with Icing sugar and if you want to get even more creative you could drizzle it with chocolate in a zig zag design :) :) 
• As instructed by my beloved son he wanted icing so here is his little birthday cake

• I just made up a little icing with a drop of blue food colouring and drop of strawberry flavouring into it :) 
• With the left over cream I just topped Madeira buns with it and sprinkled them with Chocolate  :) :) 

I really hope you enjoyed this post :) 

Let me know if you have tried it :) 

Until next time 

Lots of love luck and laughter 

Nina C

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Collection 2000 Cream Puff Moisturising Lip Cream Review

Hey my beauties how are you all doing today :) 

Well after getting over a few days of not feeling so good i am now feeling better enough to start at least blogging again.  The making videos part will have to wait another couple of days but the more i wait the more video ideas is on my list lol but hey its better than having nothing :) 

So if you read my last review on the Collection 2000 Shimmer Shades Blush you would have read that i got 3 items in my haul in which i decided to review separately so this is the 2nd one of my purchases The Collection 2000 Cream Puff Lip Cream.  I always wanted to try these as they remind me a little of the Nyx Soft Matte Lip Cream and i wanted to see were they the same or near it as i do like the Nyx ones in which i will be reviewing very soon 

What Collection 2000 say:

Velvet vibes have been hitting the catwalk, the high street and have been seen on our favourite celebs; now this touch-tastic sensation is landing a smacker on our lips! Collection 2000 Cream Puff Lip Cream is the new velvet-feeling, matt-looking, muted and moisturising lip cream.

For a velveteen pout that doesn’t look puckered, Collection 2000 Cream Puff Lip Cream is your perfect product. Enriched with a creamy, hyper-moisturising formula that is packed full of vitamins, this innovative cream with a powder finish is a lip-loving product that provides a unique matt, long-lasting lustre to the lips. Powder microspheres hug the creamy colour to your lips to make sure that your pout is perfect all day, or night!

I purchased this in boots for the low price of 4 euro but price can vary some places do them cheaper and you are getting 5mls of product for that price.  Now as far as i know there are only 4 shades available in these lip creams there is 

Cotton Candy 

Powder Puff 

Fairy Cake (which is what i got)

Angel delight 

Even though I stood at the stall for what seemed like forever to decide which one i wanted "fairy cake" stood out to me more.  After all I was choosing shades from this brand that would be suitable for the Spring/Summer time.  

Fairy Cake is a beautiful warm coral pink shade 

The formula actually surprised me.  The consistency is thick but not too thick a little goes a long way.  It feels extremely soft and creamy on the lips.  I have found if you apply with the wand it will appear streaky on the lips so what i do is simply even it out with my little finger.  "Fairy Cake" is so pigmented and i can tell this tube will last me a long time.  Now i know what you are thinking your think "but its matte will it not make my lips drier or soak into my dry lines" the answer is no it doesnt soak into the lines at all i have even applied this when i was suffering dry lips i just put a little bit of chap stick on my lips and applied as normal.  When applied feel nothing like they look from the tube it feels really light and the lasting power is amazing i have found this shade has lasted as long as 3 to 4 hours before i even top up a little.  If you suffer with dry lips they might not last as long :)  The scent of these are lovely its not overpowering and you kind of get the scent of vanilla sweets of it but it doesnt last long on the lips if you dont like that. 

So have you tried these out? If not i would highly recommend them i will surely go out of my way to purchase the other shades for the price they are you are getting more than what you are paying for.  :) :) They are definitely the cheap version of Nyx Soft Matte Lip Creams my good friend Dyna has even done a comparison review so check hers out If you want :) :) 

Until Next time 

I hope you enjoyed this review 

Take Care 

Nina C

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